No, those are the easy parts. The hardest parts come with the "discussions" as to which questions belong in that section, and which do not. Eg. A person quite new to Perl may think a question about a regex matching too greedily is "hard", whereas people who have been around a while consider that "simple" stuff.

As to figuring out whether a question has been "answered successfully" or not, that would require a) some changes to the way the site works, and b) more participation on the part of the questioner, who would have to return to her/his node and hit some button saying 'answered'. It seems to me that not everyone would participate, and thus a list of supposedly unanswered questions will in fact just be abandonded ones, or ones where the author hasnt bothered..

How would *you* define a successful answer, and how change the site to accommodate that?

C.

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